BittWare Releases Second PCIe Board Based on Altera’s Arria 10 FPGA and SoC

September 21, 2015

NEW YORK, NY– BittWare, a premier board supplier for over 25 years, announced today at the 2015 HPC for Wall Street – Cloud & Big Data Conference the availability of the second board of its extensive family of products based on Altera’s Arria® 10 FPGAs and SoCs – a ¾-length PCIe board called the A10P3S. Integrating the Arria 10 FPGA and SoC with a wide variety of features, the A10P3S board supports a range of applications such as network processing and high performance computing for applications in financial services, data centers, and cyber security/signal intelligence. The board offers flexible memory configurations supporting over 48 GB of memory (featuring the latest DDR4 and QDR options), sophisticated clocking and timing options, and four front-panel QSFP cages that support 100 Gbps (including 100GigE) optical transceivers. A comprehensive Board Management Controller (BMC) with host software support for advanced system monitoring greatly simplifies platform management. The board also supports Altera’s SDK for OpenCL™.

Built on 20nm process technology, Arria 10 FPGAs and SoCs boast higher densities, higher performance, and a more power-efficient FPGA fabric than previous generations; they also integrate a richer feature set of embedded peripherals, high-speed transceivers up to 28Gbps, hard memory controllers, and protocol controllers. Arria 10 FPGAs are the first FPGA to integrate hardened floating-point (IEEE 754-compliant) DSP blocks, delivering breakthrough floating-point performance of up to 1.5 TFLOPS. Arria 10 SoCs are also the industry’s only 20nm FPGA to integrate a dual-core ARM® Cortex™-A9 MPCore™ hard processor system (HPS).

“The A10P3S adds a new dimension to the FPGA COTS board market,” stated Jeff Milrod, President & CEO of BittWare. “It is the first high-performance offering that fully supports System-on-Chip (SoC), combining leading edge FPGA technology with an embedded dual-core ARM Hard Processor System. As an FPGA board, it delivers unparalleled performance and power-efficiency with a unique SODIMM-based memory configuration, high-speed I/O capability, and OpenCL support; as an SoC board, it opens up a brave new world of options for complete, stand-alone distributed processing with little to no host traffic or intervention – ideal for security, network, and financial applications.”

Connected directly to the Arria 10 FPGA and SoC for lowest possible latency

Memory:

Two SODIMM sites that support DDR4 SDRAM, QDR-IV, and QDR-II

Up to 16 GBytes of on-board DDR4 with optional error correcting codes (ECC)

Board Management Controller for Intelligent Platform Management

USB 2.0 for programming, debug, or control

Timestamping and synchronization support

Dual SMA for reference clock/synchronization inputs

Tunable high-accuracy TCXO

Programmable clock synthesizer (Si5338)

Complete software support with BittWare’s BittWorks II Toolkit

FPGA development kit for FPGA board support IP and integration

Broad range of IP offerings

MAC/PHY

TCP/IP Offload Engines (TOE), UDP Offload Engines

PTP/IEEE-1588

PCIe DMA

A10P3S Price and Availability

BittWare’s A10P3S board is available for ordering now, with shipments starting in Q4 2015. Contact BittWare for configurations, pricing, and details.

About BittWare, Inc.

For over 25 years, BittWare has designed and deployed high-end signal processing, network processing, and high performance computing board-level solutions that significantly reduce technology risk and time-to revenue for our OEM customers. Our products are exclusively based on the latest FPGA technology from Altera and industry-standard COTS form factors including PCIe, VPX / OpenVPX, AMC, XMC and FMC (VITA 57). When customer requirements make it difficult to use industry-standard boards, BittWare can provide modified solutions, and/or licensed designs for applications in financial services, data centers, cyber-security, instrumentation and military/aerospace markets.